POLITICAL financing laws are needed to prevent politicians from using foundations – better known as ‘yayasan’ – to enrich themselves, their families and political parties, said anti-graft watchdog Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4).
In launching its report Foundation and Donations: Political Financing, Corruption, and the Pursuit of Power, political economist and member of C4’s board of directors, Edmund Gomez, said that foundations were meant to fund social and community programmes.
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